What patterns do you see?

Imagine that the zeros on these dominoes are blank spaces for you to fill in with your own pattern. What would you put in each blank space? What patterns would you see then?

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+

Attending to and using structure

Seeing and creating patterns

Sorting, organizing, and using attributes

After the class has discussed the questions above, you can extend this activity by posing the following questions:

Come up with as many different ways of filling in the blanks to create new patterns as you can. For each way you find to fill in the blanks, what new patterns do you see?